Charley Bergna

By |2024-10-29T00:57:36+00:00December 16th, 2012|museum people|

Charley Bergna Charlie Bergna, Raleigh’s first sales rep in America A champion cyclist, and a champion for cycling. Charley Bergna dedicated himself [...]

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Frank Turano

By |2025-05-01T04:49:25+00:00December 7th, 2012|museum people|

Frank Turano Movie star Joe E. Brown and Frank Turano 1934 Frank Turano understood better than anyone that an athlete's job [...]

Erhard “Butch” Neumann

By |2025-02-13T16:45:04+00:00November 19th, 2012|museum people|

Erhard "Butch" Neumann Butch Neumann is the one with waterbottle on his handlebars Erhard Neumann's Schwinn Paramount Erhard M. [...]

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Tommy Smeriglio

By |2024-11-08T03:56:53+00:00May 15th, 2012|museum people|

Tommy Smeriglio Tommy Smeriglio Tommy with Ernie Landis at a race start Tommy Smeriglios Dick Power [...]

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Vic Hopkins

By |2025-06-25T15:02:49+00:00January 22nd, 2012|museum people|

Vic Hopkins Cycling Legend Victor Hopkins, in 1924 Vic was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1904.  His mother, a single woman, gave him [...]

Mickey Franciose

By |2024-11-08T16:22:15+00:00December 5th, 2011|museum people|

Nicholas "Mickey" Franciose Mickey Franciose In his U.S. Champion jersey, 1936 Mickey's 1931 Brennan track bike Mickey, [...]

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Jimmy Stillmaker

By |2024-11-08T16:26:26+00:00December 3rd, 2011|museum people|

Jimmy Stillmaker 1947 - 2010 Washington state champion, 1965 Jimmy Stillmaker, a local cycling character, is missed. A night [...]

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Gavin O’Grady

By |2024-11-08T16:30:48+00:00November 4th, 2011|museum people|

Gavin O'Grady His hometown named a street after him... Sonoma stage, 1988 Coors Classic Mountain Leader Jersey, 1988 [...]

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